, who were very close to washington or who saw washington up close. but, having said all of that, i can't think of anybody else that i would have rather had as commander. i think, toward, the nathaniel green of 1780 might have been able to have done a job as well as washington did or perhaps even better, but greene was not prepared for that kind of position in 1775 and people like charles lee or horatio gates, they were just out of the picture altogether because they have been professional the british officers and congress wasn't going to go there. congress wanted a native-born american to be the commander. and you look at who is around, people like john sullivan hugh had been a lawyer in new hampshire and, i just don't see anyone who would it fit the bill. i think too, you have to look to the total picture of washington. he is a pretty good minister of the army. the officer corps was blindly loyal by and large to washington. he worked extraordinarily well with state governors and with congress, so that, i think made up for some of his deficiencies fr

i was never against george washington. i love george washington. and so i think washington fought it in a number of sult ways and overt ways and he did it the way he usually did things with political fighters he let other people do a lot of the fighting for him. >> host: we have 30 minutes left in our three hour conversation with john ferling. our next question comes from air ral watching us in tacoma, washington. hello. >> caller: hello and first of all thank you very much. i attended and spoke at a dinner in scotland. and the dinner was about with the lord buchanan that received a wooden box from wallace. they claimed that george washington had sent it back and he was supposed to give it to his, whoever is going to be next in commands. but he sent it back. and the funny part of this is they gave a -- little ceramic statues that they have purchased in the united states to speakers. do you know about these dinners and the connection of this wooden box? >> no. no. this is news to me. >> and great deal of detail interesting to see how george washingt

i have actually, lived with washington, i think, for about 25 years, i -- i wrote a biography of washington, back, in the 1980s, and i came back to washington, early in the decade, and wrote a comparative study of washington, john adams and thomas jefferson during the revolution and then turned to washington as a politician, and looked at him in the ascent of george washington from that standpoint. and, i think in each of those endeavors, what strikes me about washington, is he's a very complex individual, and he's a very difficult person to get to know. he was very careful in anything that he wrote. and unfortunately, his widow, martha washington, destroyed all of their letters. so we can't really see a private side to washington. and, i think that is what fascinates me more than anything about washington, is to keep digging and digging to try to learn what i can about washington. >> host: to our viewers, what makes in-depth work, are your calls, and, we will be going to calls in about 10 minutes, for john ferling and we welcome your questions, we especially would like to hear from readers

i was never against george washington. i love george washington.@ú@úpt with the lord buchanan that received a wooden box from wallace. they claimed that george washington had sent it back and he was supposed to give it to his, whoever is going to be next in commands. but he sent it back. and the funny part of this is they gave a -- little ceramic statues that they have purchased in the united states to speakers. do you know about these dinners and the connection of this wooden box? >> no. no. this is news to me. >> and great deal of detail interesting to see how george washington is memorialized in other places than the united states. i was wondering if you have a favorite among the second or third tier characters in this period of history? >> host: well, actually -- >>g well, i'm not sure i'd call them second or third. >> host: the folks of whom biographyes are not often written in their entirety. >> guest: well, my students used to always ask me a long with do we have to know this for a test. which one of these people would you like to have spent

i was never against george washington. i love george washington.and so i think washington fought it in a number of sult ways and overt ways and he did it the way he usually did things with political fighters he let other people do a lot of the h >> host: we have 30 minutes left in our three our conversation with john ferling. to, washington? >> caller: hello. thank you very much. i attended and spoke at a dinner in scotland. it was about with the lord of cannon i received a wooden box from wallace they claim george washington had scented back and he knew he was supposed to guarantee -- and give it to the next in command but they gave it back but they gave little ceramic statues that you did purchase in the united states to speakers or could you know, of these dinners or the connection of the wooden box? >> guest: no. it is news to me. >> host: and a great deal interesting to see how george washington is memorialized in other places than the united states. do have a favorite among the second or third year characters in this history? >> . >> guest: i

morning washington." it is wednesday, july 22. thank you for joining us. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. we begin with your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we're hoping for some rain outside. >> when we needed, it does not come. hewwe don't wanthe it, it is ever e one storm over calvert county yesterday. itaterh te and didn'ht go anywhere. heres a storm west of the 95 corridor. we will keep an eye on that. temperature range, upper 60's to low 70's. we will be in the mid to upper mid 80's when all is said and done. i think today it will be a lot like yesterday. tomorrow, a better chance of rain. saturday could be dry, albeit hot and sticky. let's check in on traffic. >> we have a lighter volume than we are used to. no problems in and out of baltimore. we have long term construction beginning tonight at 7:30 tonight. but everything is good this morning on the baltimore- washington parkway. there is a crash in virginia on 66. only one lane is getting by. that is out of tyson's o

"good morning washington" starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i am greta kreuz. >> and i am alison starling. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. lisa baden is standing by. we will talk with her in the second. steve rudin has the weather. >> we're looking at a nice morning shaping up for us. we will look forward to plenty shun sineunater this teafoon as temperatus te rebound to the mid to upper 80's. 63 in leesburg. 70 suit in d.c. -- 70 degrees in d.c. noontime, 80 degrees. daytime highs in the upper 80's. we will look at the extended outlook coming up. another cool down is on the way. we will also talk about what happened to yesterday. >> i am looking forward to hearing more about your weather. this seems to happen every night, overnight road work. this is going south on the beltway from college park to angers. overnight construction still in the way. in the loop, only one lane to the left getting by. >> thank you. >>> we begin with a

washington" continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. 6:00. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. bank you for joining us. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> we will start with brian van de graaff. quite a light show we had last night. >> pretty intense storms rolled through the. last night. a psomeasreicked up twoas-us inches of inesch of rain. oohe tow d0' 's. 68 in woodbridge. its is not qu z prasero es as zs out here this morning. less humid. partly cloudy, mid 80's or so with that chances of more showers this afternoon. some could pack a punch. time to check in with lisa baden. >> i have my little map out here. there has been a crash on 210 southbound, south of 28, north of the charles county line. everybody northbound is going to look to get into their. it is going against the rush hour workflow. a series of wrecks between woodstock and strasbourg. i 70, a helicopter crash. as far as the traffic, but you can g

and washington refused to give up. washington never, ever would give up. again, one of his salian strength. he had never forgotten what the war was about. he had splendid health. all through this. very interesting. everybody else was getting sick, not george washington. and his courage and his good health and his unwillingness to cave, as we say, was powerful in its effect on the army. and on many people in congress. congress had picked george washington to command the army because they knew him as a man, not as a soldier. he had nothing to do with the military for 15 years. they knew him as a fellow member of congress, a legislature in the continental congress in philadelphia. the decision to put washington in command was one of the greatest decision ever made by any congress in history. he was a political general, a very political general which should not be taken in any way as a derogatory comment. we have been lucky in our political generals, with george washington, and george marshall, eisenhower, colin powell. george washington understood, because he

now it is near 70 and washington.s county, we have some patchy fog as well as in parts of central virginia. elsewhere, availabilities are not too bad. just a hazy morning with afternoon highs in the upper 80s and turning humid. the slight chance of an isolated thundershower. and the likelihood is in the afternoon nor for the mid-80s. near 90 on .e we could see highs in the 80s for sunday. will stay humid the next week. >>> good morning to you, everyone. we are doing fairly well so far alontraffic in the northeast. this is new york avenue coming in from maryland. so far so good all the way down to the exit for the third street tunnel. just traffic light issues. the travel lanes are open. we'll check the speeds to see how we are doing southbound on the inner loop from college park to route 50, eighth minutes. 19 minutes from route 50 to the wilson bridge. all the earlier issues have cleared out. good news there. off the wilson bridge to the springfield interchange, just seven minutes so far. not bad. eun, back to you. >

, washington. i am doug mckelway. alison has this day off. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. let's start off with steve rudin in the weather center. >> we are looking at a quiet morning so far. temperatures will remain below average for today. we are looking at a cluster of thunderstorms will to the south of's exiting the north carolina -- moving towards richmond. a could hit the southern suburbs in two hours or so. we expect the storms to diminish. morning temperatures in the 60's. highs around 80 degrees it chance of showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon. let's get an update of the rush- hour commute. >> bitter commuters because of road work at 118. one lane is getting through the construction project at 118. a clearro used -- it clears out when you get to father hurley boulevard. good on the beltway heading over into landover, near fairfax. all quiet on 95. it is quiet between richmond and baltimore. normal travel times. also good on 66, did dulles greenway, and the du

"good morning washington" begins right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> let's start with brian van de graaff. it is as humid as can be. >> we do have been skewed showers on the radar this morning. this batch of moisture down into western fairfax. you are under the gun if you're coming in on 66 this morning. otherwise, fairly tried this morning. at dulles. let's give you the forecast. we are in the 70's this morning. temperatures will be held back because of the clouds. some thunderstorms are likely. we will talk more about that as the day goes on. let's have the first look of the traffic of the day. >> first thing i wanted to discuss is southbound baltimore- washington parkway. there was a crash over the weekend near route 50. the crash is on the left side of the road. they're doing major repairs. that means southbound baltimore washington parke white for the re

washington. the helicopter took off just a few minutes ago for the medevac. again, we don't know why the patient was transferred. we can tell you washington hospital center does have a burn center. the patient appeared to be alert and conscious when he was medevaced. montgomery county fire and rescue units were called to congressional country club just before 3:00 for a report of a person struck by lightning. fire officials tell us that the first responders arrived and found a 42-year-old man struck by lightning on the golf course. we understand that this man may have been trying to leave the golf course and get inside a shelter in advance of the coming storm. he was taken here to suburban hospital by ambulance and officials will not tell us his condition at this point. there was a response of no comb from the folks at congressional country club. but what we can tell you is that the patient was transferred from suburban hospital to washington hospital center's med star you don't know tonight nort

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i wrote a story for a "washington post" about part of it. and most of what i was doing was for the book. >> rose: what book? >> for the book on obama. and, you know, all of that may stay in the files because the big story... the center of gravity will be elsewhere. general jones was on a fact-finding mission to talk to people and to look at the war in afghanistan, look at what's going on in pakistan. and he delivered a message and the message was "let's deal with the strategy in the afghanistan war that we now with with v with the troop level, it's now been approved, and not be thinking about more troops and, in fact, you will create a whiskey tango fox-trot moment for the president if you come until with more troops." and that was a very clear message that the pentagon and the generals since the story came out made it clear, well, they're going to ask for what they want. jones made it clear that wasn't an absolute restriction but he was carrying a message from the president of the united states that it's already obama's war and he hopes to

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the morning, washington. -- good morning, washington. >>> welcome back. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. still a very pleasant subject. >> let's see how long we can live with this wonderful july in washington. >> we have the more days. we do have some added cloud cover today. still, a very nice day. good-looking outside. some mid-level clouds are rolling to the sky. over the district, you can see some of that edit cloud cover.65 degrees at reagan national. dew point at 58. fairly light winds out of the east. it will be cool again today. martinsburg, up 57. mclean, up 56. damascus, 63. dew point are comparable. we see the clouds come and go. let's go back to lisa baden. >> it is good-looking outside because you are outside. good-looking. what do you have cooking? not much on the roadway is what we have cooking. good traffic around the beltway. northeast is also good. we will take a spin on to 95, which is decent between baltimore and richmond. traffic from newington to get up to springfield, beyond to the pentagon. no surprises into nort

jcpenney. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. welcome back. is there is the morning. thank you for joining us. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. brian is working on his words on how to say humid. >> they are always very helpful. >> "muggy." >> i on the mapu on the map it iingoto g i be that way. >> it is ns t as yesterday. 69 in arlington. your forecast today, partly cloudy, isolated storm. hot and soggy. that is the word i we use this time. you have any words to share with us? >> good. nice. >> that does not describe the humidity. >> i am not very good at scrabble. anything over four-letter words, i am done. my sister has a 12-letter words. i will wake her up and ask her about words for humidity. ok. beltway it looks good @ connecticut avenue. the humidity -- we love brian van de graaff. northbound out of fredericksburg there has been a wreck before the hov tree in dumfries. the left lane is closed. >> thank you. >>> 5:31 is yourim te .a a in ongta >> that destroy

so it appears that people are talking in washington -- washington.e still don't know how this is going to end. we don't know what the solution is. both sides are really digging in their heels. but there's at least talk going on. and so that's considered a sign of hope. >> ifill: now the interim president roberto michelettei said he is waiting for things to return to normal. so what is normal? >> well there is traffic in the streets behind me. offices are open. shopping is going on. but behind that veneer of normalsy there are soldiers outside all major government facilities here there are soldiers ringing the airport. most international -- most if not all international flights have been cancelled. and there's still a curfew in the evening. so things are very tense. the interim government people here are worried about disturbances. and we hear reports of people being detained arbitrarily. yesterday the first one or two deaths happened when the soldiers opened fire. so it's not a countries that's back to normal by any means. >> ifill: well, the burden

being washington.t doesn't make any sense that we're debating a welfare program about wild horses when the american people really want to know, where are the jobs? debating this bill, i frankly think, is an insult to the american people who are out there looking for work. small businesses who are looking for customers, trying to keep their doors open. if democrats want to do something serious, here in this house, they should join with republicans and focus our efforts on those thing this is a will help create jobs in america, which, after all is the number one priority of the american people. probably ought to do a few other things. if we're going to talk about creating jobs and keeping jobs in america, maybe we ought to speak -- out to scrap speaker pelosi's national energy tax which will cost about 2.5 million jobs every year over the next 10 years. or smabe we should shove the health care bill which is being debated in committee as we speak which is going to take private health care away from millio

the way i see it, i am not going to washington to be the sixtieth democratic senator, i'm going to washington to be the second senator from the state of minnesota, and that is how i am going to do this job. [applause] i promise to do my best, to work hard, to stand on principle what i believe i must, and yes, to compromise when i believe that that is in the best interest of the people of minnesota. on behalf of frannie and my beautiful kids, let me say thank you to the people of minnesota. think you for your patience, for your thoughts and prayers, and for giving me the opportunity to work for you in washington. i can't wait to get started. [applause] we will take a few questions, thank you. >> when you expect to have -- how difficult is it going to be to come and some much later than everybody else? >> i can't tell you exactly what i will be seated. i think it will be early next week. coming in in midsession will be more difficult than having to start january 6, i'm sure. i have been trying to keep abreast of what has been going on. i will do the best i can. >> norm coleman called and concei

instead of taxing carbon dioxide, washington went the cap-and-trade route. that's great for wall street, which will make billions trading carbon rights; and great for lobbyists and lawyers, who'll write the rules. it wont be great for anyone else. i certainly don't want to pay higher taxes. but look-- we'd all be better off paying taxes directly than paying for mileage standards and carbon trading indirectly. let's hope that our supposed leaders wise up and try to do these things the right way, not the washington way. i'm allan sloan. >> susie: and finally tonight, it was paws-up at republic airport in farmingdale, new york, today as pet airways made its inaugural flight. it's the first all-pet airline. a new york couple came up with the idea after their jack russell terrier made his first and last trip in a traditional airliner's cargo hold. at pet airways, dogs and cats fly in the main cabin of a freight plane fitted with carriers in place of seats. the one-way flights cost $250. pet airways flies animals between new york, washington, chicago, denver and l

the issue was what would happen if there was a soviet attack on the united states, on washington in which several top officers were killed and the response of the reagan administration was to set up a secret program is elaborate exercises in which three different teams were established -- they actually ran drills, teams of -- i forget 30 to 45 career officials who would know how to run the government and they needed someone to be in charge of each team so they appointed several people who knew how the federal government ran, and then they would take a cabinet member. now the cabinet member could be someone like secretary of agriculture, john block, for example, someone who didn't know national security. but the person who would really know how to run the show would be a former white house chief of staff. and so both dick cheney and don rumsfeld who both served as white house chief guesseses -- chiefs of staffs participated in these exercises and still relevant to some of the issues i'll talk about is they would go to different places each time. sometimes abandoned school yards. why? they

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southbound george washington parkway is open. down to one lane at the entire length of south washington street. they started a long-term project on monday that will carry to the first of september. what is good for you now is in this camera and that is the 270 drive. we will have more from newschopper 7 in just a little while. >> thank you. >>> sonia sotomayor returned to capitol hill today. she will face another round of grilling. >> she is counting on her record as a federal judge to silence her critics. courtney robinson is live with more. >> she is repeatedly referred to her 17-year-old record on the bench. she seems to be doing well in the hearings. the back and forth will continue. judge sonia sotomayor will once again faced the tough questions as lawmakers return for round three of confirmation hearings. >> i do not base my judgments on my personal experiences or my feelings, or might biases -- or my biases. >> her background might out when it which she calls fidelity to the law. she addressed her remark that a wise latin

have moved to washington.e kind of like that as a washington newspaper that depends on people for advertising trying to influence the washington debate. >> charlie: who are you trying to reach? >> we're trying to reach washington influentials and shape policy and think we do a good job. >> charlie: if you can convince a bunch of add ver tide adverti online to read you are the people that make the decisions it. >> and we have if not the most one of the most influential people reading us and to our advertisers -- >> charlie: number of times of day? >> reacting to our stories and understand we're up in the morning and trying to own the morning and driving a conversation of what people are covering on cable and at other newspapers and people want to be -- it's not easy to reach those people. they're busy and we offer them the most effective and efficient way to reach the audience and it works for us. >> charlie: everybody talks about the content and what's going to happen to content and newspapers and what do you

a graphic quote from the barry case on the front page of the washington city paper. not language you would expect to see. as melanie alnwick reports, the paper is already fielding complaints. >> reporter: it's raising eyebrows. >> it's very nasty. >> wow. okay. >> reporter: and ire. >> not really appropriate. >> i'm speechless. >> reporter: the headline in this week's washington city paper featuring in bold print the accusation of a usually unmention shown nal act. >> over the line, offensive, inappropriate. >> reporter: those are some of the complaints editor is responding to since the free paper hit the public street. >> are they allowed to write that? >> reporter: the answer is, yes, they are. the quote, while crude doesn't violate the definition of obscenities. >> everybody has relationship issues. it shouldn't be printed on the front page. >> reporter: the quote is pulled from a recording obtained by the city paper of an argument between councilman barry and his ex-girlfriend. she was referring to an incident in denver whether they attended the democratic nation

"good morning washington". captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. let's get started with your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> here is brian van de graaff out in the humidity with the moisture. >> not even wearing a coat. it is very muggy this morning. we're seeing temperatures in the eru '0'snd l aow'0s. '0' fo p part, it should b a a dry day. then erat ithe mid 60's. we are about 72 in the city. it will be partly -- partly cloudy skies and a chance of an isolated storm. we'll check in with adam caskey in 10 minutes. >> it is a good morning. clearing overnight construction out of your way. everything is clear around the beltway. nothing through a northeast, washington. nothing on the freeway. 95 between richmond and baltimore is clear. good on270. 66 and good on the dulles greenway and dulles toll road with a live picture of quiet traffic where the greenway and the toll road kind of melt together. we wil

"good morning washington" continues lights now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. happy friday, everybody. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> let's start with adam caskey with what we can expect today and into the weekend. >> a little bit of cloud cover this morning. that will give way to sunshine. a few patchy clouds expected. fairly low humidity levels. gaithersburg, up 60. burke, 60. stafford, 63. we will top out in the low

the baltimore washington parke white is good. bitter loop virginia, your crash is out of the way between 66 and route 7. normal volume of traffic on 66 and 95. this is 270 traffic moving at speed into rock though. more to come on the traffic end. now to alison a doug. >> thank you. >>> as if red line riders did not have enough problems, "the washington post is out with more problems. >> the system to keep you safe is malfunctioning. matt brock is live at the fort totten station where commuters can still expect delays. >> we talked to some commuters. they are expressing fear and frustration. metro managers are expressing danger. here is the source of their anger, this "post" article that says there is a widespread problem with sensors on the tracks. john catoe wheent on the defense yesterday. >> the fact is this system is safe. >> the report " the real treat saying problems have been found on rails in four of five lines. they say contributed to the crashed last month. but john catoe said the circuits are being tested twice a day.

"good morning washington" starts now. >>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> top stories in a moment, but first a check on the forecast. we are live in the weather center. >> we're off to a warm day today. i guess some would call it hot, but it is all relative. highs in the lower-90's. a good thing about today is that it will not be too humid. 'eat but t'tales let's take as d inraan and rainfall yesterday. fm overarhee ras mrfong.r du kenc i'a'ofrangs for mr. duke's of your thunderstorm. g rklasbsburg picked up 1.3. yioungtleaarne s ar , sfa67 67, fallsshu.h65 at 65. -- waldorf, 67. take a look at that complex of thunderstorms to the midwest,th rough the ohio river value. that is not going to stay intact, so we're just expecting a little bit of cloud cover. but here is our forecast. a lot of sunshine from the thunderstorm complex. warm but not too humid. partly cloudy with a slight chance of a few storms. tomorrow, a few chances to see widespread showers and thunderstorms and the highs in the upper-80's again. >>>new details as police ueo tco investi

morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. 6:00 on this tuesday morning. i am greta kreuz. >> and i am alison starling. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> another gorgus one out there. >> the soun o has been out r fit ouve minutes. crystal clear skies. it would tycat lly look hazy for eathis t pwtdeoin a a oly . vyom cerrtfortle startour o o 8 5in8 ass. damcu cuwarrenton, 59 degrees. here is the forecast. mid 80's this afternoon. a lot of sunshine. if you patchy clouds this afternoon. a great day and comfortable. >> comfortable out of frederick county. we will show you the pace approaching 109. lanes arps move to the beltway. >> thank you. >>> metro general manager will be on capitol hill today. he will be talking about the deadly train collision. >> this comes after the ntsb urged recommendations to protect metro riders. matt brock is live to explain. >> this hearing on the hill today is about metro's ongoing funding problems. the ntsb recommendations are pretty much telling metro to spend some craash to upgrade. >> i am on it daily an

right now on radar, no rain around washington.'s a little shower just to the west of charlottesville drifting to the east. temperatures in the suburbs are now in the 60s, in the rural areas in the low 60s as well as in southern maryland. but right near the bay in the low 70s. for today, the high clouds in and out, highs reaching the upper 80s. but the big story is lower humidity has returned and it will be in place again tonight and tomorrow. then on wednesday, getting a little more humid and quite steamy thursday. might get an afternoon thunderstorm, highs near 90. then for friday, saturday and sunday, looks partly cloudy, highs in the 80s, morning lows in the 60s. and there's a small chance of maybe some showers and thundershowers on saturday and sunday, but right now it's looking partly cloudy with really a nice summer weather for the most part. now let's check traffic for this monday. jerry, how's it looking? >> tom, good morning to you. doing okay in virgin, nothing too dramatic. a little bit of volume here along interstate 6

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here we are in washington. and there you can see that area of pretty heavy showers and thundershowers that lightning continues to move in to you folks to calvert county and back of it all now, things are beginning to diminish a bit in terms of out into loudoun county and out to western parts of fairfax. this was t shower that moved through northwest washington. there is another batch for you folk into southeast washington. and out towards sea eebrook. couple of others. another one forming around chantilly. for the next hour, we will still see these with a lot of instability in the atmosphere moving through. earlier tom kierein had over an inch of rain in a few minutes. there is thether batch around huntingtown now. all of this moving towards the northeast and unfortunately, not everybody has bn getting needed rain. look at mclean. this is the amount of rain for just today. almost an inch of rain. that's the month total so it has been about three to four weeks of really dry weather. right here in northwest washi

washington. booker t.washington -- harrison considered washington to have a philosophy of subservience. harrison kept scrapbooks, which are available as one can see, and one was entitled the subservience. and he wrote several articles and 1911 and 1912 leading out his criticism, politically, economically, as booker t. washington's philosophy but what happened first even before that was 1910 booker t. washington went to europe. he went to london and denmark. he was wined and dined by royalty and basically issued press conferences and press releases saying everything was fine for african-americans back home. this was when plunging segregation and disfranchise that marred the land. a w ev to boys got together a group of 40 people who issued letters of protest and harrison, hubert harrison wrote letters to the new york sun that openly criticized booker t. washington. booker t. washington had a powerful political pressure and patronage machine referred to as the tuskegee machine. he took steps to have hubert ha

, namely "the washington post", and it didn't make any sense to anybody outside of the beltway in washington because every day there was a new episode and the papers didn't relate it to yesterday or discuss what was going to happen tomorrow. and he just pounded the desk and said, let's put together an abc, beginning a middle, end, of what we know. the fact of the the matter is, though he devoted a total of 20, 21 minutes to the story in 2 episodes, there was not one new fact in that whole arrangement we put on the air, not one fact that hadn't been published before -- >> yet that's what television does it makes a story understandable to a mass audience. connie chung, a minute left. you had observations you wanted to make earlier? let me toss the floor back to you. >> when you were asking in the beginning if we were scared of him, you know, when he had the title of managing editor of the "cbs evening news," and he took that very seriously and we took it seriously because he literally looked at our reports and edited them and he would call us and, you know, find -- ask us questions about our r

one of them is george washington. i honestly think -- i want this to be a full narrative of the founding moment, you know, moment, 30 years of the moment, but it is a historic moment. i want this to be the full narrative of that. and honestly, if you're doing a personal treatment of the full narrative, you've got to include washington. it just doesn't work otherwise. people have suggested, well, you can get by with henry knox, he was there at most of the things, and he would be a great addition too, but washington is critical, certainly in hall the military years, and then as an iconic force later on as well. he's also fortunately critical in the very opening of it, because it was george washington who literally starts the french and indian war when he attacks a french scouting party in 1754, and that's his -- it's his decision to do that. he's doing a preemptive strike on this french party and then they strike back, and then the british support him in the militiamen and that leads to the french and indian war and tha

they would all say washington. a bunch might say franklin although franklin had very little power but he was a cultural icon and had a lot of influence that way. he could come or go but there was the one other that they say has to be in the narrative, robert morris, the financier. everybody here about robert morris? okay, maybe some people to come it is an educated crowd but no more than one in 100 americans know. he was a merchant in philadelphia. he profited greatly during the french and indian war by private tiering in supplying the army and when the revolution came along he continued private tiering in supplying the army in the simultaneously started as a congressman and served on one committee and another and another until he was on all of the secret committees. at one point ben franklin said congress was wondering keying, you have got all of these committees. doesn't anybody keep track? and ben franklin says, not to worry, not to worry. robert morris is on all of the committees and he has it under control. su

tonight on "washington week." the first black president steps into his first racial controversy. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. gwen: then attempts to step away. >> there was an overreaction in pulling the professor out of his home to the station. i also continue to believe, based on what i heard, that professor gates probably overreacted as well. gwen: the health care push is being threatened. s rose garden, news conferences and rallies. >> the nation cannot afford a future where our government spends more on medicare and medicaid than we spend on anything else. this is the price of doing nothing about health care. gwen: some remain unmoved. >> this administration, this president has no one else to blame. they have no strong man, they have no press conferences left. gwen: on the hill, fed chairman ben bernanke pushes the reset button. >> we have a much better situation today than we would have if we'd seen a collapse of t

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now 65 in washington. from takoma park to mitchellville, chantilly, aspen hill, low humidity in place with temperatures in the low to mid-60s. a few clouds in and out as the day progresses. afternoon highs should climb in the low 80s with low humidity. tomorrow, more humid, partly sunny. afternoon highs mid-80s, a small chance of a late afternoon or evening thundershower. a greater chance of maybe some afternoon showers and thundershowers on sunday. still humid. then monday, into next week, looks like we'll be seeing some low humidity moving back in monday and tuesday, highs in the 80s, but getting more humid wednesday into thursday. could get some thundershowers wednesday. jerry, good morning. how's the traffic? >> good morning, everyone, happy friday. head south to fredericksburg, take a live look along i-95 northbound and southbound. there's southbound, there's northbound. about a 50/50 flow of traffic this morning. those folks might be going away, a little vacation. other than that, looking good so far

"good morning washington" continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. friday, july 24. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. we will get to the breaking news about the deadly helicopter crash. we want to get started with an early look at your traffic and weather. >> brian, what a night we had last night. >> s r socngkitorms rocking stoc through the . some areas picked up near two es inch inches of rain. erov two inches in vienna. just under two inches in brandywine. it will be less humid this morning. here is a look at your forecast. partly cloudy with some patchy fog this morning. temperatures will be in the mid 80's. i do think there will be some outdoor time this morning. any issues with the fog? >> not with the fog. i will keep an eye on that. we have been keeping an eye on an accident as a result of the helicopter crash. we will give you details as far as the details of that wreck. between fredericks town a -- between hagerstown and frederick, ro

we will check out 395 near washington bowl -- washington boulevard and the pentagon. nothing to report on 270. headlights are southbound at shady grove road moving at speed. >> you have a piece of cake job this morning. thank you. >>> metro train operators are feeling the pressure. they are being heavily scrutinized by passengers. >> they are calling for some respectful rules of the road. matt brock is live to explain. >> you knopeople will be talking about this today. these metro train operators say you can watch us. if we do somethg wrong, you cannot report us. but please, just put away your cameras and phones. >> i do not think the public should back off at all. >> that is what many passengers think. >> everyone is on heightened alert. >> some of metrobus train and bus operators say the stress is unbearable since the red line crash. some passengers are watching or recording just about every move they make. >> you know somewhere there is a phone or camera checking nap what you were doing. that is annoying. >> a metro driver texting while driving was caught on tape.